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and robes that hide his tentacles, and he keeps his left arm
gloved to the elbow at all times. TSOCHAR MAGIC
The tsochari are stealers of magic, and create little in the way
LEADERS of unique spells or items.

Tsochari constantly fight for status, looking for opportunities
to prove that they have the personal competence, ambition, TSOCHAR SPELLS
and intelligence to merit acceptance in the noble caste. In Tsochari design their few original spells to help them inhabit
practice, merchants and soldiers most often advance in this other creatures.
fashion. Arcanists care little for the schemes of their fellows
and concentrate on amassing magical power, while priests Permeable Form

enjoy so much influence and station that it’s more expedient Transmutation
to advance within the priestly caste than to seek acceptance Level: Sorcerer/wizard 3 OF FLESH CHAPTER 7
as a minor noble. Components: V THE WEARERS
Because the noble caste chooses new members from the Casting Time: 1 immediate action
other castes, the nobles can count on at least a modicum of Range: Personal
loyalty and faithfulness from other tsochari. Angering a Target: You
noble by failing to comply with its directives is a good way to Duration: 1 round
ensure that one will never be selected for that exalted class,
after all. Lower-caste tsochari that determine disobedience By altering the essential nature of the matter composing your
is not likely to be noticed or punished frequently do as they body, you make yourself incorporeal for a brief time. While
please, ignoring the orders of their superiors. The race would incorporeal, you can be harmed only by other incorporeal

doubtless collapse into eternal infighting and warfare if creatures, magic weapons, and spells, spell-like abilities,
not for two unifying factors: the racial hunger for arcane or supernatural abilities. Even when hit by spells or magic
magic, and the racial devotion to the great powers of the weapons, you have a 50% chance to ignore damage from a
Far Realm. corporeal source (except for positive energy, negative energy,
Within the noble ranks, age, personal power, and cunning force effects, or attacks made with ghost touch weapons). You
establish a pecking order of sorts. Newly elevated nobles seek can enter or pass through solid objects as described under
the patronage of older, more powerful tsochari, and work to the incorporeal subtype on page 310 of the Monster Manual.
advance their elders’ purposes. High nobles can command Tsochar spellcasters sometimes use this spell to quickly exit an
the allegiance of some number of minor nobles. Great nobles inhabited creature without causing damage to the victim.
are rare indeed, each the satrap of a whole city or region. In You cannot attack while in this state, but you can perform
tsochari society, birth plays no role in achieving power; the other actions as your incorporeal nature allows.
great nobles represent a circle of equals, each of whom holds Casting this spell is an immediate action. You can cast it
its position for centuries until some ambitious underling finds even when it’s not your turn. You can only take one swift,

a way to unseat it. immediate, or quickened action per turn.
RELATIONS WITH OTHER RACES Whispercast
The tsochari are contemptuous of most other forms of life. They Transmutation
recognize other powerful aberrations as kindred of a sort, and Level: Sorcerer/wizard 2
maintain cool relations with monsters such as neogi or mind Components: V
flayers if conditions permit. While tsochari are far-ranging Casting Time: 1 swift action

travelers with the ability and inclination to trade with other Range: Personal
elder races, they dislike the fact that many other aberration Target: You
races hold deities in little regard. Tsochari willingly ally with Duration: 1 round
cloakers, which share their goals.
Humanoids are little better than steeds, mounts to be used The next spell you cast can be cast as a purely mental action,
and discarded at will. Humanoids exist to provide tsochari provided that it is of 5th level or lower and that you can whis-

with wealth, magic, and ready sacrifices to the glory of beings per. It requires no somatic or material components, unless
such as Mak Thuum Ngatha. Tsochari look forward to the day the spell normally requires a focus or an expensive material
when they can launch a truly massive incursion, seizing the component (any component worth more than 1 gp). If the spell
bodies of high mages and great priests alike and establish- does require a focus or an expensive component, you can still
ing themselves as the eternal and secret masters of enslaved whispercast it as long as you have the focus or expensive com-
humanity. ponent on your person—the magic of whispercast causes the

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